Despite his upbringing, sudden poverty and early scientific encounters lead Sigmund away from religion. Narrator: The man who would become an atheist was raised in a world steeped in religious belief.

Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. His father was a small time merchant, and his father's second wife was Freud's mother. Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years ...